Ten Questions for Alex Dimitrov
“I hate saying goodbye.” —Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other Poems
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“I hate saying goodbye.” —Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other Poems
“Commit to completing a scene each time you write” —Randa Jarrar, author of Love Is an Ex-Country
“Every day without fail. Small marks with a pencil.” —Edward Carey, author of The Swallowed Man
“I can’t imagine myself without this book.” —Jana Larson, author of Reel Bay
“It was a bit of an exorcism.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
“Writing is revision. Period. That’s not glamorous, but it is rewarding.” —Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets
“I leapt into it and wrote it like a banshee.” —Yxta Maya Murray, author of Art Is Everything
Ten writers, including Brandon Taylor and Kate Zambreno, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.
“Every book I write is informed by my whole life.” —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The Freezer Door
“There’s never a lack of inspiration.” —Morgan Christie, author of These Bodies
“I was surprised by how much agency my characters seemed to have.” —Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread
“You have to become the person who can write the book you’re working on.” —Zeyn Joukhadar, author of The Thirty Names of Night
“Subtlety can be a form of authority.” —Simon Han, author of Nights When Nothing Happened
“Everything in my life is material.” —Ellen Cooney, author of One Night Two Souls Went Walking
“My Muse is with me always, everywhere.” —Valzhyna Mort, author of Music for the Dead and Resurrected
“I am never without pen and paper.” —Erica Hunt, author of Jump the Clock
“Don’t ever find your voice.” —Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas
“There are so many ways.” —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Negotiations
“You may not see it, but I am always writing.” —Heid E. Erdrich, author of Little Big Bully
“Write with yourself and your own healing in mind, before you think of anyone else.” —Cicely Belle Blain, author of Burning Sugar
“We are all authors. Let us acknowledge everyone.” —Juan Felipe Herrera, author of Every Day We Get More Illegal
“I’ve been writing it for eighteen years. More than half my life.” —Fariha Róisín, author of Like a Bird
“Choose the bilingual, the multilingual, and the polyglot.” —Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, author of The Life Assignment
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Marie NDiaye and Jordan Stump, the author and the translator of That Time of Year.
“I had to sit with the fear and let it talk to me.” —Joshua Bennett, author of Owed.